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  Michael Ericson April 19, 2010 at 11:50am

  Probably but they won't because then I guess Robert Finch can be accused of not standing by his own reffereeing directives.
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  iamnot April 19, 2010 at 12:31pm

  Yes, yes & yes. Unfortunately, they won't, because due to this farcical situation of having two refs for each game means there is no one to replace them, unless a couple of the other ref's back up for more than one game.
  
  It was bloody ridiculous sending those two players off
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  boffin April 19, 2010 at 12:44pm

  Besides the Friday nights games Sunday arvo is the game that most people would watch on tv so I would expect the NRL to give the sunday game the better refs and if they were an example of the best refs that are available then the league is in a lot of trouble. I still have reservations that this two ref system is an improvement, we seemed to have less mistakes in the old system. Why can't they do more than one game each weekend they are getting paid for it aren't they, or is that too much workload for the poor fellows?
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  Beau April 19, 2010 at 1:10pm

  they should sack robert finch... FFS how many bad calls that ruin games does there need to be. even the grand final was decided by a penalty (not going itno how good/bad that call was) but its getting to the point where referees are the deciding factor in games
  there was 21 penalties yesterday and the ref wants to send of someone for a strip and not even the right guy to boot, i would have understood if it was a lopsided penalty count, but it was even :S
  
  is there a TAB quote for how many days left there are for robert finch?
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  MAXFORCE ELECTRIFYING EELS 2010 April 19, 2010 at 2:23pm

  YES -- I think 1 of them should go , it was a critical error that may have cost the eels the game , the second sinbin did it for me , GEE lets get the real biff back , stop being sooks and enjoy a mans game . RAY PRICE and anyone prior to the 90s are laughing at the game we are playing
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  jamesy April 19, 2010 at 4:54pm

  They still did a better job than tony archer and bill harrigan ever did when refing an eels game!
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  Joshua Scott April 19, 2010 at 6:12pm

  Apparently this is how they are coached. If these are the decisions they are told to make, it stands that the referees boss should be sacked!!
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  Hindy#11 April 19, 2010 at 7:40pm

  Finch fuming over sin-bin bungle By Josh Jerga From: AAP April 19,
  NRL referees' boss Robert Finch is fuming the wrong player got sin-binned in Parramatta's 22-8 win over South Sydney yesterday, saying the decision was unacceptable.
  In the 64th minute, referee Ben Cummins sent Eels captain Nathan Cayless from the field following an already hefty penalty count by both sides and stern warnings by officials.
  
  Cayless was alleged to have stripped Rabbitohs five-eighth John Sutton of the ball however Finch said Daniel Mortimer was quite blatantly the player guilty of the strip.
  
  "What I'm not happy with is the fact that quite clearly they got the wrong player,'' Finch said.
  
  "I'm very disappointed they put the wrong bloke in the bin. That's not acceptable.
  
  "I'm not happy with that at all, they shouldn't be doing that.''
  
  He said a decision on whether Cummins will be dropped for round seven will be made on Tuesday.
  
  
  After 17 penalties, referees Cummins and Gerard Sutton warned both captains, they were prepared to resort to the sin bin if either side continued with their indiscretions.
  
  Although he wasn't pleased with the wrong player being binned, he supported the referees' decision to begin sending players off the field for repeated infringements.
  
  "Both captains were spoken to on a number of occasions about the number of penalties and the response from their team was to keep breaching,'' he said.
  
  "The referees are not going to keep going down the path (of awarding penalties).
  
  "We will not walk away from the fact that sides who repeatedly infringe over the 80 minutes after they were spoken to will get sin-binned.''
  
  Finch said when players are warned, referees expect them to respond by "knuckling down, not breaching immediately after that''.
  
  Shortly after Cayless was sin binned, Cummins sent Rabbitohs centre Beau Champion for a 10 minute stint off the field over a high tackle on Jarryd Hayne.
  
  Finch said the penalty was warranted as Hayne had been hit in the head and Champion was binned, like Cayless, for his side's repeated penalties.
  
  He did admit he was not happy with how that sin binning was also handled by the referees.
  
  "I didn't like the way they went about it, it took for too long,'' he said.
  
  
  From the Daily Telegraph
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  mello_79 April 20, 2010 at 12:13pm

  Yes but in saying that if we sacked every official who has made a terrible call this year I'm not too sure we'd have any left. Utimately Finch has alot to answer for, perhaps it's time for him to go. I can deal with a few bad decisions, being a referee is a tough job, but when things go wrong you look for improvement. The quality of the decisions being made by referees and their rapport with players has diminished over the past few seasons and that has to fall on the shoulders of Robert Finch.